Boy, 14, bitten by a crazed two-metre snake while asleep 'felt his blood boil' - as his brother killed the deadly reptile with a BROOM so he could be evacuated from their remote rural property to get antivenom

Judi Bain, 48, nearly lost her son Isaac, then 14, to a venomous snake bite

He was bitten while asleep by a Mulga Brown - one of the deadliest snakes

By the time he reached a hospital 'his urine was the colour of coke'

He was put in a coma for five days and doctors wanted to amputate his arm

Miraculously, he made a full recovery and now works gathering livestock

It was 1.30am on a scorching hot summer night when Isaac Bain woke up to find a bite on his arm.

The teenager, then 14, called his mother Judi on the intercom to calmly inform her he had just been bitten by a Mulga Brown - one of the world's deadliest snakes.

The two-metre reptile 'as thick as a man's wrist' was racing madly around the room where his four siblings were also sleeping, and he had begun vomiting and seeing black spots.

The family of seven live on 94,000 acres of land in rural Queensland, 200 kilometres south of Charleville - with the nearest neighbours over 20 kilometres away.

Judi Bain (right), 48, nearly lost her son Isaac (left), then 14, when he was bitten in the middle of the night on their isolated Queensland property by a Mulga Brown - one of the world's deadliest snakes

'There were three definite bites on the base of Isaac's thumb. He later said it felt like boiling water was flowing through his veins': Isaac's older brother ended up having to kill the Mulga snake (pictured)

Unable to find a torch, Mrs Bain hopped on a quad-bike with her husband and sped to the nearby cottage where her children were sleeping - seeking solace from the heat in the only air-conditioned building on the farm.

She arrived to find Isaac sitting calmly on his bed, as his older brother Daniel, then 17, attempted to deal with the extremely 'cranky' snake with the only tool in the room - a dusty old broom.

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'The adrenaline and saving your child just takes over, I had the first bandage on Isaac before the snake was even caught,' Mrs Bain told Daily Mail Australia.

'There were three definite bites on the base of Isaac's thumb. He later said it felt like boiling water was flowing through his veins.'

'Daniel sort of had to get the snake away from the door for us to even get in and reach Isaac - he just waited till he had a good hit. Unfortunately the snake was killed, it was just too dangerous.'

As the snake lay curling in a pool of blood, Judi began to fear for the life of her son, who had a large amount of toxic venom pulsating through his body.

Battle scars: Isaac's condition rapidly deteriorated as his family drove him to the nearest ambulance. By the time he reached the hospital he was unresponsive and in a terrible state

‘His urine was the colour of coke and his blood was the colour of rose’: Isaac spent five days in intensive care in an induced coma as he battled the bite. At one point doctors suggested amputating his arm

Calling the Royal Flying Doctor Services – her property was too isolated to reach a local doctor or hospital – she was devastated to learn that their one plane was broken down and out of action.

The only way to get help was to hop in a car and begin the 200km journey to Charleville Hospital in pitch black, meeting the ambulance half way.

‘We had 70 kilometres of very ordinary gravel to travel, eleven grids and livestock everywhere – in pitch black with no mobile reception’ she said.

‘It was very hairy ... I didn’t know what I was going to do if Isaac didn’t answer me. I did everything I could to actually save him. We didn't know how long since he'd been bitten.’

Flying through 120 kilometres in one hour, they finally reached the ambulance and Isaac was loaded on and whisked to the hospital – his condition rapidly deteriorating.

‘His urine was the colour of coke and his blood was the colour of rose,’ said Mrs Bain, who arrived at the hospital a short time later.

‘He was totally unresponsive, he wouldn’t do anything the doctors asked.’

She estimates it was at least four hours before he was given antivenom.

Despite extensive scarring on his arm and hand, and a 'vicious assault on his kidneys,' Isaac's long-term prognosis is 'excellent' according to his mother. He has since become ambidextrous

The suffering continued as Isaac spent the next five days in intensive care - put on dialysis for a time as his kidney's struggled to cope with the toxins filtering through his body from the deadly venom.

As the muscle wasted away in his right arm he was taken to Toowoomba Hospital where he was placed in an induced coma for five days. It was there he was advised to fly to Brisbane Hospital, where they would be able to amputate his arm.

As the family fervently prayed for his healing, things began to improve. Over the next twelve weeks in Brisbane, doctor's abandoned the amputation plans and started working on corrective surgery.

Ten operations and two years of follow-up with doctors and occupational therapists later his future is now looking positive.

Despite extensive scarring on his arm and hand, and a 'vicious assault on his kidneys,' Mrs Bain says his long-term prognosis is 'excellent.'

'It doesn’t stop him from doing anything, he’s become ambidextrous ... now he's a contract musterer, riding motorbikes and rounding up livestock.'

Daniel (right) is pictured holding the very same broom he ended up having to use to kill the snake that nearly killed his little brother Isaac (left)